You're listening to the Water Into Wine Podcast, hosted by Grace Valentine.

Hello everybody and welcome back to another edition of the Water Into Wine Podcast.

I'm your host, Grace Valentine, And I'm going to be having my friend

Victoria, who's also my producer. She's so talented. She also has a great podcast of her own.

She's going to be kind of yapping with me for a couple episodes. Say hi. So excited to be here

and say, yeah. It's going to be so fun. Yeah, we're big yappers. We are. I know. We actually were supposed to start a podcast an hour ago and we just been talking and catching up. But today, okay, honestly, you know what's funny? I've had a week where people would be like, I'm unfollowing you. I'm like, okay, don't let the door hit you on the way out. Like I wanted to talk to you about the influencer our world we live in. And that sounds weird because I'm like, I'm sure some people are like, well, grace is the influencer. For the record, I like to say, I do not make my money through social media. So I don't consider myself an influencer. This week, actually, I substitute to and babysat for two full days. So I, that's how like I'm not an influencer. I truly think in life, wait, wait, this is funny because I have a lot of friends in my life, life who are really not on the internet, Joe can say that I'm an influencer. Yeah, I'm like, y'all. You're a low standard. I am not. You're not a low standard. No, no, no. I have like two followers compared to like actual influencers.

It's actually hilarious. It's so funny the world we live in because also people act like to me an influencer is someone we're all influencers in some sense. That is true. We're all influenced people. But someone whose career as an influencer is someone who makes their money doing ads on Instagram. A hundred percent. brand deals all that stuff yeah to me i then your influence people to buy something it's a marketing

thing so is someone who makes their money doing ads on Instagram. A hundred percent. Brand deals. Yeah.

To me, you're influenced people to buy something. It's a marketing thing. So to me, I'm like, I'm another. But I get the world. It's hard to describe when someone does something on social media or they do career, what you do. Like, you obviously have a normal corporate job, but it's easy to just say influencer. And so I get the like the tension, but in my head, I'm like, wait, don't call me that.

Like I'm like, I'm. corporate job, but it's easy to just say influencer. And so I get the like the tension,

but in my head, I'm like, wait, don't call me that. Like I'm so much, I'm babysit. Like, I'm right. I'm really normal. I have a 9 to 5. You'll never see my teeth whitener on Instagram stories. Be like, my favorite is when the Instagram or the influencers do like that. I've been getting a lot of questions about how do I white in my teeth?

I'm like, no one's asked you.

Like no, yeah.

Or everyone's been asking where the shirt's from.

Here's the link.

Yeah.

Oh my gosh.

On my DMs.

I'm like, is this you DMing?

And like, I mean, it was cute.

It was just a white tank.

Like I'm not here on the end but there are sometimes that happen the girl's like would you get that yeah and I have asked my regular following brains and I'm following like where that where'd you get that you know so I'm not saying it's all a lot but well I I used to think no way people actually made money from like to know it like to know it like you know I've tried like to know it for years you know how many followers I haven't liked to know it how many like 27 I I tried it during Christmas time because actually they like DM me like to know it for years. You know how many followers I have I like to know it? How many? Like 27. I tried it during Christmas time because actually they like DM me like to know it. Really? They're like actually you do get post good amount of likes when you post your face, which I'm like, irony, you don't know. I get a lot of unfollow. Like I post my face. Like you don't want me. And then I tried it around Christmas. I did a gift guy. Oh, my gosh. I know. I made no money. It's hard. I'm like, this is actually a hustle. It is. I don't know how people are making five, six figures off of like to know it, but they are. They do. I have a friend way less fallers. Like, like, sorry, that sounds way less fathers than me. and she's made this year long already like 30k

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